(*1973), After finishing the Ph.D. study (2000), he underwent several short-term
stays e.g. at University of Delaware and University of Tokyo. From 2010, he is a
professor at the Palacky University Olomouc and the general director of the
Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, RCPTM (www.rcptm.com),
in Olomouc, Czech Republic (EU). He is a member of the Learned Society of the
Czech Republic (http://www.learned.cz/en/)
and an active member of the board of the Technology Agency of the Czech
Republic. In 2011, he was awarded by the Czech Republic’s Minister of
Education for extraordinary results achieved in the field of research,
experimental development and innovations. Professor Zboril is the author and
principal investigator of more than 30 national and international grant
projects with the total support over 47 mil EUR for the Palacky University.
He is also a general chairman of the international conference NANOCON (www.nanocon.eu)
and a member of the scientific board for chemistry in the Neuron endowment fund
(http://www.nfneuron.cz/en/).
Prof. Zbořil is the director of Competence Centre of the Technology Agency of
the Czech Republic (www.nanobiowat.com).

Professor Zboril is an author and co-author of more than 443 papers with
the total impact factor over 2 528. He is the
corresponding author of many ACS journals, e.g., Chemical Reviews
(IF=47.928), Accounts of Chemical Research (20.268), ACS Nano (13.942), Journal
of the American Chemical Society (13.858), Chemistry of Materials (9.466). He is
also the first and/or corresponding author of other top journals in the field of
materials science and nanotechnologies including Chemical Society Reviews
(IF=38.618), Advanced Materials (IF=19.791), Nano Today (IF=17.476), Advanced
Functional Materials (IF=12.124), Angewandte Chemie (IF=11.994), Biotechnology
Advances (IF=10.597), Biomaterials (IF=8.402), Small (IF=8.643), Green Chemistry
(IF=9.125). Prof. Zboril is also a co-author of more than 20 proceedings and
book chapters published by, e.g., American Chemical Society, Wiley or American
Institute of Physics. He is a member of the editorial board of Applied Materials
Today (Elsevier), scientific Reports (Nature family), ChemPlusChem (Wiley).

His publications have received over 16 828 citations (in 2016:
more than 3 000 citations/year – TOP 5 most cited Czech scientists in
2016). H-index=58. 32 publications with more than 100
citations. (Scopus, April 3, 2018)

Professor Zboril is a co-author of several European and US patents. Among
others, he has a principal contribution to the development of large-scale
technology for the production of zero-valent iron nanoparticles (European
patent No. 2164656), which are currently commonly applied in environmentally
friendly technologies of ground water treatment (www.nanoiron.cz/en).